Obama urged students to actively embrace and understand difference, citing her experiences traveling abroad as first lady and witnessing turmoil that results from hate and intolerance. The beauty of America, she argues, stems from our differences.

While diversity gives many companies a competitive edge, misalignment is a common problem - especially when leaders aren't prepared for handling cross-cultural differences (or try to ignore them altogether).

When Octavia Spencer first read the script for her new movie Hidden Figures, which chronicles the true story of the three African-American female mathematicians behind NASA's 1962 Friendship 7 mission, she thought it was brilliant fiction.

Many tech start-ups are in the business of making themselves successful. But some entrepreneurs have set up businesses with the express mission of training others to be successful in the tech sector. Several of those start-ups have dedicated themselves to creating programs, incubators or accelerators to train blacks and Hispanics for tech jobs.

Hispanic women in the United States are the fastest-growing and highest-spending market segment for cosmetics, with remarkable loyalty to brands and a better response to social networking strategies, with even celebrities launching their own product lines.

"Whistle" launches tonight with a fully integrated effort for both the General and Hispanic markets, including an epic :90 online version just in time to kick off the Copa America tournament. Or - as we soccer aficionados call it - "let's use all our personal days month."

Carla Moore is the new Vice President of POS Strategy and Education at HBO.

NAMIC-New York member and NAMIC EMMA winner, Shante Bacon, Founder, CEO, 135th Street Agency, was named as one of Ad Age's Women to Watch 2016

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